Melvin E. Hopkins, a 39-year-old police officer with the New York City Police Department, tragically lost his life on September 15, 1979. Officer Hopkins was off duty and waiting in front of a liquor store owned by his uncle in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. As the store was closing for the night, a man attempted to gain entry. When Officer Hopkins informed the man that the store was closed, the man produced a handgun. A confrontation ensued, during which both Officer Hopkins a
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